I believe he was born in Bogata, Columbia and then moved as a child to Vera Cruz. He has US citizenship through his mother who is Honduran but immigrated to the US as a baby. At his house they speak only a dialect of Spanish from his Hispanic heritage. They make their own tortillas, which by all reports are fabulous (though do contain lard).
Jeez, Louise. What a silly thread. Gold Cup: 4 goals allowed, and a zillion chances. We were being cut to pieces, even before Dolo went out. And it just got worse after. Today, w/out some of the forward firepower, but with basically a better overall roster, Mexico got 1 goal out of nothing, and no clear chances I can remember. Not a bad effort from the defense. And that would include the four in the back, and Jones/Beckerman/Bradley. Yes, there were issues with giveaways (we were trying to pas out of the back, not hoof it out), and maintaining possession on offense in the first half. But Mexico didn't really create many chances, for all their possession. Heck, we had more chances than they did (Boca header, Shea shot, Donovan PK, Agudelo flub, Donovan cross early).
Other than Castillo, who looked nervous, Torres, Orozco-Fiscal, Agudelo, and Bocanegra all put in competent to good performances, and certainly did not do any worse than some of our non-latin players on the field. As for Castillo, I'm not going to declare someone a dud after just one or two bad games. Afterall, Shea didn't look so impressive in his first appearance, but was a stud tonight. Give the guy a chance.
Castillo did look nervous. I think we need to look at other latin players. The Hoyos brothers,Ponce,and Adrian Ruelas if he gets any minutes with Juguares.
Most of the time I wanted to laught, but as a player you have to respect the coach even if he suck, and again he is from England and worked with EPL people so he is so much superior. You should tell that to english college coaches, I couldnt say crap bc i was gone be thrown out of the team
We call ourselves Indians, you should to. Meh, we'd dominate at lacrosse/Indian Stickball. None of those other sports are tough enough. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di1UZahVy64"]choctaw stickball 2009 pt2 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbeI7OpBcC0"]Choctaw Indian Stickball - YouTube[/ame]
i think him calling up hispanic players sends a message to the hispanic youth prospects (in particular mexican -americans) that this is your team too.
Yes, the opening post was. ... the US plays best when it plays with speed. I was watching Juve-Chivas match and Robbie Musto said something like, "Juve plays so short all the time - always into feet and never into space". That was the US in the first half other than in times when they went long and forlorn to Buddle (who has no speed, skill or size to do this vs. Mexico). Then, in the second half, once it was Agudelo on top, Donovan in the hole and Shea and Rogers on the wings, the game opened up for the US and the Tricolor had to chase shadows. I hope Klinsmann and the Co had that figured out quickly. It took Bob two years.
Viggo Mortesen was raise in Argentina, has some family born in Argentina. Theres Viking communities in South America.
Greater than 50%? What was the break up of practices then? Do you believe that allocating practice time to those levels has helped you develop as a soccer player? Do you think time could have been more wisely used? My point has been that we are too results oriented at lower levels. As a result, at higher levels, if these kids reach them, they will be poorly prepared.
for somebody like me it will never work, maybe if you mix it a little bit with passing. i dont really see the point of playing soccer if all you gone do is hit the ball to the sides and then send the cross... every ball being a 50/50 challenge is just painfull to watch or play, that is the nature of college soccer i guess. where I grew up you hit a long ball only in emergency when you are in trouble on defense, or if you really really think you gone make something happen, other than that is just wasted ball. anyway for some teams work, for most teams doesnt work, they end up frustrated thinking they were just not "good enought" and they are right, i dont think i can remember the last team that won something playing long balls. the biggest example is chelsea, never won the champions league.
thats really stupid. you obviously know nothing about the game or what klinsman is trying to accomplish
Absolutely agree. We should never be just hard working, we have skill now and we should be able to be both skillful and hard working.
Yea man, Jurgen bring all the latin players that save the team man. That Torres dribble sideways and backwards better than Dempsey man. You can tell all them players has real good technique and runs real fast, real low to the ground, use their muy bajo balance. This team is very matizado now man with the latins players. We don't need no stinking Bradley.
for the most part 40% of the time we worked on set pieces. nope, working on set pieces doesnt help me in anything, yes, lots of better things you can do with that wasted time, ill say if anything no more than 20% should be spent on it. the whole "direct" concept is crap, who came up with it? what did he win?